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Segment reporting | 12 Months Ended
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7. | Segment reporting
The Company’s business activities are conducted as one operating segment – Air transportation, the reporting results of which are regularly reviewed by management for purposes of analyzing its performance and making decisions about resource allocations. Information concerning operating revenue by geographic area for the period ended December 31 is as follows (in millions):
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
North America |  | $ | 610.0 |  |  | $ | 638.9 |  |  | $ | 559.6 |
Panama |  |  | 413.5 |  |  |  | 371.6 |  |  |  | 374.2 |
Central America and the Caribbean |  |  | 275.3 |  |  |  | 273.6 |  |  |  | 289.0 |
Brazil |  |  | 363.7 |  |  |  | 245.4 |  |  |  | 290.6 |
Colombia |  |  | 197.9 |  |  |  | 146.1 |  |  |  | 174.2 |
Others South America |  |  | 667.2 |  |  |  | 546.2 |  |  |  | 566.1 |
|  | $ | 2,527.6 |  |  | $ | 2,221.8 |  |  | $ | 2,253.7 |
The Company attributes revenue to the geographic areas based on point of sales. Our tangible assets and capital expenditures consist primarily of flight and related ground support equipment, which is mobile across geographic markets and, therefore, has not been allocated.

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